Marta Arévalo Osorio
Mexican writer, choreographer, actress, and dancer
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Jin Xing
Transgender Chinese dancer, choreographer television host
Patricia Ryan
Irish ballet dancer, choreographer and ballet company founder
Dorothy Moses Alexander
Founded by visionary dance instructor Dorothy Moses Alexander, the Atlanta Ballet began performing in 1929. Alexander’s dream of bringing quality ballet to the Atlanta community resulted in the Dorothy Alexander Dance Art Group—the first regional ballet company in the United States.
Sonia Revid
Sonia Revid created public health ballet at the height of ‘dance fever’
Kitty Lunn
Founder of Infinity Dance Theater, a nontraditional dance company in New York City that features dancers with and without disabilities, including those in wheelchairs.
Adriana Pierce
Trailblazing dancer, choreographer, and director, who is reshaping the ballet world through her initiative, Queer the Ballet.
Ana Ines King
Artistic director of the Santander Ballet in Colombia, faculty at Virginia Commonwealth University’s department of dance and choreography, and founder of the Latin Ballet of Virginia in Richmond in 1997, a professional dance company whose performances are rooted in Latin American traditions.
Tina Ramirez
Tina Ramirez combined her artistic vision with years of performance and teaching experience to create and sustain the nation’s preeminent Hispanic-American dance company and school, Ballet Hispanico.
Twyla Tharp
Twyla Tharp is one of America’s most important contemporary dance choreographers.